Nameless Trashless


Year: 2023
Content: Cans Pavilion
Venue: Annone Brianza, Italy
Team: Gloria Aiolfi, Laureline Bertrand, Greta Chiappetta, Alix Doussot, Martina Marchesi, Andrea Panzeri, Andrea Pescatore, Annachiara Trabacchin, Oliviero Vitali, Rocco Vitali
Images: Daniele Colombo, Gabriele Viganò, Vitali Studio
Stage: Completed

“NAMELESS TRASHLESS” è un monumento ecologico, un padiglione interattivo che cresce tramite il riutilizzo artistico e sperimentale dei rifiuti prodotti durante il Nameless Music Festival 2023, a partire dalla collaborazione tra SILEA, NAMELESS e VITALI STUDIO. L’installazione nasce grazie al pubblico del festival che consuma più di 20.000 lattine in alluminio durante l’evento. Il progetto utilizza quasi la metà di questi rifiuti, prodotti costituiti da una natura pregiata, colorata, riflettente e dalle infinite proprietà meccaniche e di montaggio, dando vita a una cattedrale splendente di lattine, un oggetto effimero e temporaneo dalla forma geometica, simile a un tendone da circo o ad una navicella aerospaziale atterrata in emergenza al Nameless Festival. La struttura a ponte è composta da un sitema prefabbricato in tubi innocenti, alle estremità della quale sono posizionate due scale che consentono di attraversare il padiglione o di usufruire di un punto di vista privilegiato sui palchi. Lungo entrambi i corrimano che accompagnano la passerella sono posizionati circa 250 cavi, ancorati successivamente al prato con dei picchetti da campeggio. Le lattine sono inserite una alla volta lungo i cavi e il padiglione cresce lentamente durante i tre giorni di concerti. Il pubblico partecipa all’assemblaggio del padiglione attraverso un coinvolgimento attivo, in virtù di uno sviluppo verso una sensibilizzazione ecologica e un avvicinamento all’arte, al paesaggio e alla collettività. Lo spazio diventa un luogo di incontro e di ritrovo, un riparo dal sole, un arredo su cui riposare tra le varie esibizioni degli artisti che si modifca e si muove costantemente fino a quando, l’ultimo giorno del festival, la costruzione è finalmente completa.

Shokin-tei


Year: 2023
Content: Holiday house
Venue: Bellano, Lake como, Italy
Team: Annachiara Trabacchin, Oliviero Vitali, Rocco Vitali
Stage: Completed

Shokin-tei is a tribute to winter. The tea room of the Katsura imperial villa has tree openings facing the rest of the property, and checkered handmade paper sliding doors that cover a central alcove.

San Nicolao

Year: 2023
Content: Museum
Venue: Bellano, Italy
Team: Annachiara Trabacchin, Oliviero Vitali, Rocco Vitali
Stage: Under construction

The church of San Nicolao, now deconsecrated and used as an exhibition space, is the result of continuous stratifications traceable in the constructive complexity of the building and in the presence of frescoes belonging to different historical periods. The project involves the construction of a double triangular mezzanine and a staircase to access it. The intervention maintains the double height of the church and at the same time increases the exhibition area. Great attention is dedicated to the restoration of medieval and Renaissance plasterwork and frescoes, to the treatment of all existing surfaces and to the specific design of all display and lighting supports.

Imaginary Animals


Year: 2021
Content: Sculptures
Venue: Milan, Italy
Team: Annachiara Trabacchin, Oliviero Vitali, Rocco Vitali
Stage: Completed

The narrative encounter of two unrelated species gives birth to a fantastic being.
The organism contains more genetical sets of DNA.
We use to empathize with creatures we know, we use to pray the unknown ones.
These fantastic animals are created with recycled ecological leather.

Curfew

Year: 2020
Content: Skirt
Venue: Piazza Vecchia, Bergamo, Italy
Team: Daniela Gregis, Filippo Bortolotti Sironi, Oliviero Vitali, Rocco Vitali
Photographs: Ok’am
Stage: Completed

Curfew (Een, Athnan)
The lips remain closed behind the net that traps dreams and tales (Tre, Apat).
White leaves lay on the faces of the world, gagging them (Go, Éxi). Slowly the masks conquer the body and dress it in white (Saat, Lapan).
Mummies (Jiû, Sib).
Now every man is any man. Every man is all men (Ēgāra, Dvanaest, Tretten, Neliteist).
Our treasures are still hidden under the new skin, while the passing of time brings them alive day after day. (Quinze, Kuusitoista).
Like the trunk of a tree the vest becomes a time measurement system that hides and reveals the colors of our identities until the fire is completely blazed. (Umikumāhiku, Astoņpadsmit, Dahanava vana,Labaatan).
No man is a mummy (Dua puluh hiji, Tjugotvå).
Each leaf has its own color (Tlieta u ghoxrin, Vennkat).

Fuoco Rotto


Year: 2021
Content: Marble mosaic floor
Venue: Milan, Italy
Team: Oliviero Vitali, Rocco Vitali
Stage: Completed

The atrium is the only “room” in the apartment that is not a room. The floor is transformed into a square, an open book made up of mosaic tiles like the words of a travel story. From Milan to the island of Lipari. The lava flows along the slopes of the volcano generate a carpet that welcomes guests and invites them to discover the crater, the house. The design marks a fluid threshold that connects and separates the interior spaces.

Vertigine

Year: 2016
Content: Swing Pavilion
Venue: Bellavista winery, Erbusco, Italy
Team: Oliviero Vitali, Rocco Vitali, Velasco Vitali
Photographs: Vitali Studio
Stage: Completed

The wind dresses the landscape, carrying the perfumes of woods and flowers through the vineyards.
The swing overlooks the hills of Franciacorta, rocking like a pendulum over a basin of water that makes the experience of swinging both peaceful and unconfident, connecting the sky with the ground.
It is built with an elementary structure of four posts and a beam, painted in orange like a Japanese Torii.
The sculpture is a portal that it is possibile to continuously cross following its rhythmic dance. Back and fort, until gravity makes it motionless.

Fake/Authentic

Year: 2019
Content: Exhibition
Venue: Museo d’Arte e Scienza, Milan, Italy
Team: Amarchitectrue, Rocco Vitali
Photographs: Jacopo Valentini, Rocco Vitali
Stage: Completed

Museo d’Arte e Scienza shows Greco-Roman and Etruscan Art.
Some of the pieces are real, some are plastic copies.
The furniture exhibition inside this space researches the duality between fake and authentic.
The scenography is painted over folding panels, a false perspective sketch of the ashlar pattern of the exterior facade. It is a fake representation of our daily life background, the city.
The drawing is copied, colored, folded and rotated. Endlessly.
A new scenery. Right and Wrong.

Belgian palms

Year: 2016
Content: Wall Painting
Venue: De Nieuwe Onvrije Schipper, Gent, Belgium
Team: Rocco Vitali, Wim Goes Architectuur
Photographs: Johannes Berry
Stage: Completed

A tropical garden in a nordic city.
Surreal, as Belgium.
The structure of the palms, trunks and leaves, plays with the structure of the building, columns and vaults.
The nature follows the architecture and viceversa.
The painted columns do not touch the floor and the leaves do not follow exactly the course of the ceiling.
They break the rules of architecture as nature always do. 

Carloforte Waterfront

Year: 2023
Content: Park
Venue: Carloforte, Italy
Team: Tareq Tamimi, Annachiara Trabacchin, Oliviero Vitali, Rocco Vitali
Stage: Competition – Selected Entry


The project is a garden, a fluid and continuous public space, a natural walkway that connects the city of Carloforte with the the sea. The park serves as an urban connector and cultural campus. The proposal therefore represents a contemporary version of the botanical garden: a place where people can meet, have fun, educate themselves, a place of recreation, sport, beauty and learning; a place that connects all the areas and inhabitants that surround it and that is itself connected to all sides. Nature and architecture can finally coexist in the city.

147 doors


Year: 2023
Content: Pavilion
Venue: Venice, Italy
Team: Tareq Tamimi, Annachiara Trabacchin, Oliviero Vitali, Rocco Vitali
Stage: Competition

The space of the threshold takes on the role of a pavilion, where the crossing of the border between inside and outside is dilated into a constellation of 147 doors. One entrance leads to the next, a new handle, another door to push, one to pull, yet another passage to pass. Thanks to the installation of a modular system, the rhythm of the infinite entrances exacerbates the idea of ​​passing through a new portal, perhaps the last, perhaps not. The center of the installation is the threshold of the building, a phenomenon of celebration and negation of space, distinction between public and private, between city and home, between divine and earthly.

Natura fuori Scala

Year: 2022
Content: New laboratories for ‘La Scala’ theatre
Venue: Parco della Lambretta, Milan, Italy
Team: Tareq Tamimi, Oliviero Vitali, Rocco Vitali
Stage: Competition


Park of scenographies

The new complex of laboratories of the Teatro alla Scala follows the morphology of the Park.
The project involves a light and transparent building that gradually grows like a hill in the city. Thanks to the maximum transparency of the facades and the setting up of public scenographies along the infinite garden roofs, the new building welcomes the citizens, bringing them closer to the world of the theater and culture.

The close relationship with the laboratories allows the theatrical sets to be used as temporary architectures for the city, where various types of activities can be carried out, from concerts to conferences.

Red Hut

Year: 2022
Content: Project for the renovation of the roof floor and a new emergency staircase
Venue: Rifugio Tommaso Pedrotti, Bocca di Brenta, Italy
Team: Tareq Tamimi, Annachiara Trabacchin, Oliviero Vitali, Rocco Vitali
Stage: Competition


The journey ends in the red ribbon.
From the valley to the snow. Everything fits in the dormitory.
The outwards life of the rocks is driven in. Sleep. Hunt.

Mountain is home.

A wolf climbs a pick; bowing to the window you can see it.

Pixel

Year: 2020
Content: Piazza
Venue: Piazzale Loreto, Piazza Tito Minniti, Milan, Italy
Team: Oliviero Vitali, Rocco Vitali
Stage: Competition

Two carpets for the city of Milan. Piazzale Loreto and Piazza Tito Minniti welcome their new painted floors. The texture, squares and hexagons, recalls the paving of the historic Milanese architecture. Pixel provides the active involvement of the city inhabitants. Each of these participates in the creation of the work by personalizing one of the ‘tiles’ that make up the whole puzzle. The citizen chooses the color of his box and proposes a drawing to realize within it. The constellation of all the pixels gives shape to the final design of the square, narrating a collective growth of the city as a result of the energy of each person.

Miniature

Year: 2018
Content: Exhibition
Venue: Cité de l’architecture & du Patrimoine, Paris, France
Team: Bruther: Stéphanie Bru, Alexandre Theriot, Pierre-Loup Boisseau, Alice Weil, Oliviero Vitali
Photographs: Julien Hourcade
Stage: completed

Text by Stéphanie Bru

Control.
it’s defining what you inspire
what inspires us
everyday.
Everyday the are numerous effervescences;
their meeting is synonymous with relinquishing.
It’s about continually moving from one performance to another
to understand and accept the exigencies,
but also to defeat them,
and enter new areas.
Every day, the energy is great, engine of all productions and situations
– whether banal or exceptional they may be.

Eclipse

Year: 2018
Content: Campus
Venue: Barilla, Parma, Italy
Team: Oliviero Vitali, Rocco Vitali
Stage: Competition

The new Barilla Campus takes place within a fragmented landscape moulded by warehouses, offices and containers of production.
A blue building, the Pavilion.
The colors of the brand are a constant reminder. Icons. Tools.
As a red carpet, half on an ellipse invites the visitors to enter inside the big box of the pavilion, a free space where all the activities merge. It is an introspective world, with no openings on the facades but a constellation of elliptical skylights on the ceiling.
A red building, the Collection.
Paintings rest on the wall, sculptures walk around the space, light falls heavily from the roof.

Rgb

Year: 2018
Content: Chair Pavilion
Venue: Biennale, Venice, Italy
Team: Oliviero Vitali, Rocco Vitali
Stage: Competition

3 pavilions, 3 countries, 3 flags. 100 chairs, 8 colors.
Black, banana yellow, deep carmine pink. Belgium
Blood red, american Yellow, blood red. Spain
Upsdell Red, White, Dark Cornflower Blue. The Netherlands

Outside the three pavilions of Spain, Belgium and The Netherlands 100 bistro chairs are placed along the walkway that leads to the Central Pavilion. Each chair is painted with one of the 8 colors that compose the flags of the three countries.
After visiting the exhibitions inside the pavilions, the visitors can grab a chair, move it closer to another one and so, to another person.
The simple act of sitting together and talking.
When two chairs meet, colors are mixed, flags blended, cultures merged and experiences shared.
The confident gesture of opening the folded chair is a choice of sharing, a new step.
The bistro chair is an icon, it belongs to the garden or in general to exterior spaces.
Chairs come together if only people come together. Their displacement brings the countries together, transforming the installation into an unconscious performance.

BOARD

Year: 2018
Content: Exhibition
Venue: Biennale, Venice, Italy
Team: Oliviero Vitali, Rocco Vitali
Stage: Competition

Board is a line, a limit and a threshold.
A string that goes from human intimacy to urban traces, through the collective imaginary, as a spotlight in the middle of his surroundings.
All the different remains of our world are opportunities to reflect on the relationship between the tangible and the most far away.
The void is a physical entity, a representation, a glass of cultures.
The proposal is a voyage through the relations between physical and human emptiness. Room by room, the visitor walks through the different scales of voids we share in our life, using the symbol of the window as a common guideline to define three main spaces.
The domestic room of a house.
The meeting ground of a piazza.
The endless repetition of an urban landscape.